RE: Newbie questions, Partisioning
There is no prob with having fat16 after fat32 partitions but using fdisk (windows-dos version) you can only have 2 partitions - logical drives aren't included - i.e. 2 primary or 1 primary and one extended, Linux fdisk I think can have up to 4 primary partitions, you prob could be related to the bios. one thing I have noticed is Linux has problems with partitions after a certain block, not sure which, perhaps someone could enlighten us? also had a diff prob of disk druid - red hat - completely deleting the extended partition upon reboot, including partition I had just installed Linux on, screamed a bit when i realised that!!! -Original Message- From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2000 19:46 To: Lowell Voelker Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:21:05AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote: > > There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not be > Fat16. Is this true? Not sure about that, but i've seen WinDOS 98 have troubles with two FAT32 primary partitions -- it read C: (hdb1) ok, but D: was a 0 byte drive and E: was hdb2. Changing that second primary to a logical partition (hdb5) gave C:=hdb1 and D:=hdb5 as expected. -- finger for GPG public key.
Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:21:05AM +0100, Lowell Voelker wrote: > > There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not be > Fat16. Is this true? Not sure about that, but i've seen WinDOS 98 have troubles with two FAT32 primary partitions -- it read C: (hdb1) ok, but D: was a 0 byte drive and E: was hdb2. Changing that second primary to a logical partition (hdb5) gave C:=hdb1 and D:=hdb5 as expected. -- finger for GPG public key. pgp7ILLRD8mVD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie questions, Partisioning
Quoting Lowell Voelker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was just given a new PC with 40GB hard drive and Win98 preloaded Fat32 > from what fdisk is telling me. Will it be posible to leave the first > 20-30GB as Fat32 and from 30-40Gb for Debian? Yes, just so long as you can boot the kernel from somewhere. If the BIOS can't read it from a partition with such a high cylinder position, then there are other tricks like loadlin, or having a copy of the kernel early enough in your FAT32 partition. BTW remember to consider a swap partition. > I have no way of knowing if the rescue dice will reload Win98 if I start > over and set up Fat16 for the first 2GB? > > There is a rumor around that any Primary Partision after a Fat32 can not be > Fat16. Is this true? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but taken together, are you suggesting in order: W98/FAT32 20GB+ - FAT16 2GB - linux/ext2 rest with FAT16 shared? (I can't quite see the point. Linux can mount W98.) I've not heard of such a rumoured restriction. What's it meant to affect? Or are you going to move W98 thusly: FAT16 2GB - W98/FAT32 20GB+ - linux/ext2 rest which may suffer from W98 suddenly moving to D: because the first partition is now C:. Could you be more specific and precise about what you want to do. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
